Harley Gray Building

RCP was the design phase and delivery manager for a large and complex five-storey, 34,000m² new-build at the heart of Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital – the Harley Gray Clinical Services Building (CSB). 

Delivery of the $130m facility provided the opportunity to replace a number of acute service facilities that were coming to the end of their life. It also enabled important new clinical services to be established, which will enhance patient care and address service gaps well into the future. 

The building was designed and constructed to IL4, and comprises a 14-theatre operating suite, sterile services unit, medical assessment unit, high dependency unit, post anaesthetic care unit; and other non-clinical support functions including a spiritual centre. The project has improved service provision through the co-location of previously disparate services across the hospital campus. 

Inherent in RCP’s design management role was helping to optimise patient flows across the hospital campus. With robust planning and intensive stakeholder engagement the design process resulted in a streamlined, operationally efficient and innovative building that enabled improved service provision and enhanced wellbeing for patients, their families and staff.